Source: The Straits Times Page A2 24 Aug 2009
Article by Bertha Henson, Associate Editor
She went out, presumably to check with someone else, came in and took the flask away with profuse apologies. She was a Chinese national too.
The nurse who was in charge of my particular room was a Filipina. Likewise, the nurses who asked me questions en route to the operating theatre and the nurse who assisted the anaesthetist. They were all cheery though I had to wrap my brain around their accents…
I believe I was in touch with a true-blue Singaporean hospital staff member only once — an elderly Malay man who helped push my gurney.
